Conflict and contradiction : nineteenth-century blackface minstrelsy -- "Black or white" : from Jim Crow to Michael Jackson -- The continuum of blackface minstrelsy -- Ghosts : racial phantoms and the lost black self -- Turnaround : love and theft -- Just using it : Eminem, the …
Conflict and contradiction : nineteenth-century blackface minstrelsy -- "Black or white" : from Jim Crow to Michael Jackson -- The continuum of blackface minstrelsy -- Ghosts : racial phantoms and the lost black self -- Turnaround : love and theft -- Just using it : Eminem, the …
Cover -- Half Title -- Dedication -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- General Editor's Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Conflict and Contradiction: Nineteenth-Century Blackface Minstrelsy -- 2 'Black or White': From Jim Crow to Michael Jackson …
Harriet Manning argues that the nineteenth-century blackface minstrelsy's legacy is nowhere more evident than with Michael Jackson, in whom minstrelsy's gestures and tropes are embedded. The author further contends that minstrelsy's assumptions and uses have been fundamental to …